Workers tunnelling through mountains and redirecting rivers, powering and irrigating the nation. We think of the Snowy scheme as a successful nationbuilding project – but it wasn’t always that way
“Traffic jams” of boats and floating houses on the dry bed of Lake Puraquequara, in the outskirts of Manaus: a combination of climate change, a strong El Niño and insistence on works with a huge environmental impact contribute to an unprecedented and extremely urgent condition in the region.
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A combination of climate change, a strong El Niño and an insistence on works of enormous impact are contributing to an unprecedented and extremely urgent situation in the region
The Seli’š Ksanka Qlispe’ Dam provides enough electricity for about 147,000 homes in the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana.
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If South Africa fails to implement the 2019 Integrated Resource Plan, it will lead to the demise of Eskom as an energy producer as users turn to alternative electricity sources.
Lake Powell’s water level has been falling amid a two-decade drought. The white ‘bathtub ring’ on the canyon walls marks the decline.
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Climate change is affecting hydropower in different ways across the country.
Motorists drive at night on a road without street light as Nigeria struggles with power outages in a commercial district of Lagos.
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In an effort to save Lake Pedder from a hydro-electricity scheme, the world’s first political party with a foundation in environmental values was formed in Tasmania.
Indigenous activists have long been protesting the Belo Monte complex.
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Rather than considering the job done, Tasmania should seize opportunities including renewable energy, net-zero industrial exports and forest preservation.
Batteries used in Spanish energy storage tests.
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Sea levels are rising, while deltas are being starved of sediment by upstream dams.
Land Protectors Jenelle Duval, Susan Oralik, Vicki Allen and Amelia Reimer (left to right) look on as Denise Cole beats the drum on the steps of the Confederation Building in St. John’s on Tuesday, Oct.25, 2016 during a Muskrat Falls demonstration.
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